Django Tutorials

[Jasvir Singh]

I have started a series of Django tutorial for beginners. I am making
them in such a way that a user get knowledge for working on Django in
quick and efficient way.
Till now, I have completed only introduction phase.

I'll also make video tutorials for the same exercises.

Here is link of my tutorials
http://goo.gl/3jPaf7

Please review it. I need your suggestions to make them more efficient.

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Blog: jasvirsinghgrewal91.wordpress.com

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[Prashanth]

This is just a suggestion ..but why don't you write it in another language?
1. You're reinventing the wheel writing it in English.
2. Language is the biggest barrier to entry. Been there, done that, will encourage anyone to learn English; but people shouldn't Have to do so to code.
3. By knowing both another language (if you do) and django, you are part of a small fraction of individuals qualified to do this.

This isn't a comment on the presentation or content of the tutorial itself.

[Jasvir Singh]

On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 8:28 PM, Prashanth <prashan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is just a suggestion ..but why don't you write it in another language?

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> a small fraction of individuals qualified to do this.

Thanks for your suggestions. This is just a beginning and there is lot
more to do in future and this suggestion got place in my to-do list :
)

> This isn't a comment on the presentation or content of the tutorial itself.

It will be appreciated if you comment on these too.


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Jasvir Singh Grewal
Blog:http://jasvirsinghgrewal91.wordpress.com/

[Jasvir Singh]

On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Jasvir Singh <jassig...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Please review it. I need your suggestions to make them more efficient.

Suggestions awaited.

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[Tim Graham]

I don't mean to be a downer, but I don't see anything in your outline that's substantially different from what the official Django documentation offers. Is there a reason you think you need to create a new resource rather than improve or expand the official Django docs? Personally, I would rather mentor someone contributing to the official docs which will likely reach a much wider audience.

[Jasvir Singh]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 1:22 AM, Tim Graham <timog...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't mean to be a downer, but I don't see anything in your outline that's
> substantially different from what the official Django documentation offers.

How it can be different, as both are about same topic.

> Is there a reason you think you need to create a new resource

Actualy when I have started working on Django and I open Django book,
I got scared. I was like, "do i have to read all this?....this is huge".
When I start with tutorial of poll application, it does'nt make that
much clearence,
what is going on at the beckend, what are views, models etc, because I have no
knowledge about working on frameworks, even I didn't know what a framework is.
I was totaly a NOOB. These things can demotivate the begginers as I
got demotivated
in initial stage.

So I have started these articles.
I have tried to cover all the basic concepts which are required for
working on Django in
very compact way.

No doubt, django's official documentation is best way to learn but if
someone read
django book after reading these articles, then he/she can have better
understanding
and can gain more from django.

> mentor someone contributing to the official docs which will likely reach a
> much wider audience.

It would be my pleasure If I can contribute to official docs under
your mentorship.
We can add these articles to django official docs when they get
polished to that level.

[Daniel Greenfeld]

Javair,

Not to put a fine point on it, but did you actually bother to look at djangobook.com? It says: "A warning about this edition" on the front page and then goes into asking that users not work on it. Is this why you don't want to work on it?

Daniel Greenfeld

[Jasvir Singh]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Daniel Greenfeld <pyd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Javair,

It's Jasvir. :P

> and then goes into asking that users not work on it. Is this why you don't
> want to work on it?

No.

When I was a beginner, the size of each topic makes me feel fear from django.
I was like, "do I have to read all this before we startup".
It gives more benefit to a user after making an simple application
such as a blog
application. Because till that, he/she get some knowledge about what are views,
models, how to hit a view etc.

Many peoples have bad impression of django and I want to make them clear that
how wonderful django is and how easily we can make applications.

[Jasvir Singh]

On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Jasvir Singh <jassig...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Here is link of my tutorials
> http://goo.gl/3jPaf7

Now these tutorials are shifted to my personal domain.
http://www.jsgrewal.com/tutorials/django/

@all, critical reviews are needed.

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Jasvir Singh Grewal
Blog:http://jasvirsinghgrewal91.wordpress.com/